Visitors may also view a short biographical film and listen to samples of his music and that of other artists who were influenced and inspired by Guthrie.

The archives contain manuscripts, lyrics, correspondence, artwork, scrapbooks, musical recordings, books, and photographs, and are open to researchers by appointment.

[4] The Woody Guthrie Center officially opened on April 27, 2013[5] after the archives were acquired by the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation.

[a] While wearing a virtual reality headset, they will sit on a replica of a front porch, watching a dust cloud roll in across the prairie to envelop them.

The Dust Bowl inspired a number of Guthrie's musical works, and led him to take up the causes of migrant workers and other people disenfranchised by an ecological disaster.